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Started 16 years ago by Whiterabbit-uk
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Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

While I was writing a reply in the thread about activation problems with Cool Record Edit Pro It came to mind my first ever record I bought. So I thought I'd start this 'Interest' thread off. I like finding out about stuff like this as it gives me a further link with my online buddies :)

What was the first Album and single you ever bought. I realise with the way music is being sold these days that may just be a little harder to answer, so if you are a relative newcomer to buying music, what was the first MP3 single track and album you bought online. :)

My first singles were:

George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord' (I loved the guitar solo) and my second single was 'Lady Rose' by Mungo Jerry (they did 'In the Summertime') I discovered recently that the singer from Mungo, Ray Dorset is still going strong after 35 years, doing the clubs and pubs circuit in the UK. and my third single was Hey Joe/Voodoo Chile double A sided single by the man himself Jimi Hendrix

My fist albums were:

Paranoid by Black Sabbath, my second was Death Walks Behind you by Atomic Rooster and my third was Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath :)

WR

Posted 16 years ago #
maizeydaze
Member

I was a big collector of albums, 45's, and cassettes. I had music on reel-to-reel too. Passed by 8-tracks though. I never did like them. I just sold the better part of my album collection about 5 years ago to a 20 year old young man. He was really excited about getting to listen to them. I did keep around 70 albums, that I just couldn't part with and I still have hundreds of 45's and cassettes and a few ep's.

My first single:
This was a gift from my aunt. She bought all my 45's for a few years when I was in primary school. (I don't remember the first single I bought.)

The Beatles on Capitol Records
A Side: I Want To Hold Your Hand
B Side: I Saw Her Standing There

My first album:
Steppenwolf's Monster

Posted 16 years ago #
BuBBy
Teh adnim

The first LP I ever bought - with my own money - was:
"A Night At the Opera" by Queen.

The First "Cassette" - was a "box set" of 6 Pink Floyd Albums
1. Wish You Were Here
2. Animals
3. Collection of Great Dance Songs
4. The Wall
5. Momentary Lapse of Reason
6. The Final Cut

The first 2 CDs I remember purchasing at the same time (or maybe a day apart):
1. "The War Of The Worlds" - Jeff Wayne (Double CD) (To show off my new CD Player)
2. "The Miracle" - Queen

Posted 16 years ago #
graylox
Moderator

To my 13. birthday my parents gave me a portable record-player- brand DUAL It was about DM 300,-- that was an equivalent of more than $ 1.200 (if I remember correctly). That was a very great purchase, and so there was no money left for a record. But lucky me, I got one from my cousin Jürgen. I met him two weeks earlier for the first time on a family reunion. A grand-cousin (or whatever) from New Jersey came to Germany and wanted to meet the whole clan. There I met a lot of my father's relatives for the first time, though they lived only 30 - 40 km away from us. Most of my new-found (male-)cousins were older than I, and they liked - just like me - to dance. By this way the expected boring family-meeting became a rock-'n-rolling teenager party, and a happy "brownlox" fell in love in 14 year old Jürgen. The sound of the evening was Rock'n Roll from USA and some not quite so rocking sounds from Germany. One of the smooth sounds was "Ich denk an Dich" (I'm thinking of you) sung by Peter Kraus (still singing). And that was my first record, on the A-site : "Sugar Baby". The first one I have bought, was from Elvis - but I just don't remember which one. The first album, was some years later "Cheap Thrills" Big Brother & The Holding Company and -needless to say- Janis Joplin.
graylox

Posted 16 years ago #
funkymom
Member

i just can't remember the first single i bought, but the first record i bought was billy joel- 52nd street. i "inherited" a lot of singles and records from my uncle, and my parents had (and now i have) a great record collection.

maizey- good choice on the 8tracks. about 10 years ago, i found all my parents old 8tracks and a player and decided to have some musical memories. every single tape broke immediately! oh well, the really good ones i already had on vinyl or cd.

whiterabbit- great idea.

i've run into so many people (young people) who really don't know what a record is. one looked at me blankly and said "those are the big round ones, right?"

Posted 16 years ago #
graylox
Moderator

funky, now I have a question too : what is the difference between a single and a record ?
and what are 8tracks ?

Posted 16 years ago #
RunesageMagik
Member

graylox, a single used to be a smallish diameter record, operating at 45-RPM, with 1 song on each side... usually a hit song on one side and a crappy song on the other. I have about 100.
8-tracks were clunky plastic box cartridges (looked a bit like Atari 2600 game cartridges)

Wabbit, talk about a trip down memory lane! I was weaned on my folks' 78-RPMs, but as I rummage through the 400+ dusty albums I've accumulated, it looks like a toss up between -
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass album - circa 1965 - (I suspect the whipcream covered lass on the cover had more appeal than the music inside!),
The Ventures' Hawaii Five-O album - circa 1964 -(ditto lass on cover... see a pattern forming here?)
or
A trusty and well-used environmental LP called Mystic Moods Orchestra/Stormy Weekend - circa 1970 - helped set the "mood" for many a date, followed by 1 of 2 of my early Simon & Garfunkle albums and my Moody Blues collection.
None of the covers or the labels have dates on 'em, but Google will cough up some dates by entering album name and #.

HI, Funky! :-)

Posted 16 years ago #
funkymom
Member

a single is a smaller record that usually has 1 song on each side (side a and side b), a record is the whole album. 8track tapes came out (i think) before cassettes, they were bulkier, but that is pretty much what i remember about them (i was a kid).
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rune answered at the same time. :D

Posted 16 years ago #
sukibabe
Games Junkie

1st single: Help by the Beatles

1st Album: Was given to me for Christmas in a large box that allowed the album to lay flat on the bottom, then my brother had filled it with candy, yo yo's, yarn etc...I think it was The Monkey's,lol,had a crush on Davey! Could of killed my brother for that prank!

I have a set of 78rpm Strauss Waltze's.

Suki

Posted 16 years ago #
Face
Member

RM - Although it wasn't my very first purchase, Mystic Moods Orchestra's "One Stormy Night" still brings back memories of "the good old days"! For those who aren't familiar with it - it's well worth a listen:

http://www.rhapsody.com/mysticmoodsorchestra/onestormynight

Posted 16 years ago #
brian2090
Member

Too far back to be certain, but I know that Ace Freeley's KISS Solo album was in the first few... and Journey's "Wheel in the Sky". Before I laid out any of my own money I remember having only my dad's Johnny Cash and Ronnie Milsap LPs to listen to!

Posted 16 years ago #
graylox
Moderator

what a pity, Face, I'm not allowed to hear it in Germany - but I remember - faintly

Posted 16 years ago #
RunesageMagik
Member

Thanks for the link, Face... too bad Rhapsody is part of RealNetworks. They can dump as much crap on a computer as a cockroach colony at a PC convention. Still, I see that site also offers the complete version of Stormy Weekend! Decisions, Decisions... do I let RealNetworks temporarily infest my system or do I schlep upstairs to relive the rain & thunder background to Love is Blue? I can almost hear an old girlfriend moaning to the thunder!! :-)

Posted 16 years ago #
Face
Member

RM - You're welcome! Funny how spending money's easy - it's making the decision to spend that's tough!

Stumbled onto this, too (at least tnere's no charge to read - yet ...):
http://www.spaceagepop.com/millerbr.htm

Posted 16 years ago #
delenn13
Minbari Ambassador

Can't remember my first single, as I am finally recovering from almost a 2 week stint of migraines which almost landed me in the hospital(Mybe later I will). But my first album was The King's " Blue Hawaii" in 1961 because I loved the song "Can't Help Falling In Love With You".

Posted 16 years ago #
Bobby
Member

Wabbit, you've invited the lot of us on a stroll down memory lane! ( I'll be the one sitting on the park bench, eating ice cream and waiting for all you young'ns to catch up.)

Our home was always filled with music; my Dad was one of the great Swing Era musicians, and my grandparents were Texas country musicians that could make their own instruments. I've added my parents' vinyl collection to mine now and the albums number a thousand or more, with at least 25% being old 78's, with a couple aluminum discs for good measure. Some of the earliest recordings made stand alongside my 60's hippie music. I have .. literally .. every genre, including o.o.o..o.o.l.d opera that can peel paint right off the wall, classical and baroque, country, swing, big band and dixieland, latin, military, commemorative and wartime, hard rock, heavy metal, hippie, comedy, instructional and easy listening (Floyd Cramer, Mantovani etc). If one looks hard enough, they could even find some 70's disco.

The first music that I personally bought was, I think, the Beatles. I used to practice shorthand to their songs because .. 1., they were easy to understand and 2., simple words at a brisk pace. I guess the theory worked .. by the time I finished junior high, I could take shorthand at 180 wpm. To this day, I can't listen to Beatles music without mentally noting the words in shorthand!

If you like, you can wander over to http://navylights.homestead.com/ and browse the site I made for Dad. It's chock full of historic photos with a couple clips of his music. First site I made, and it's rough. Forgive the slow-loading pages!

Posted 16 years ago #
graylox
Moderator

Hi Bobby, I am speechless! What precious memories!
Thank you very much for sharing them with us.
Pleeease tell us some more. Your dad's site is great.
Have a nice day
graylox

Posted 16 years ago #
LeKanaw
Member

Ohhhh my, that question brought back soooo many memories!
I was in Africa at the time, in a small country nobody knows nothing about.
We only had 1 boat every 2weeks for food & stuff and a passenger plane on Sundays that brought the mail & small items. So it was VERY HARD and very expensive to get any superfluous items like LPs.
I had bugged & begged my Mom for a Beatles album since I heard Obladi Oblada on the radio - we had radio only 2hrs ea. night, Sundays/Saturdays we got a whopping 4hrs!!!
Mostly propaganda & censored stuff - so how Obladi managed to slip through, I don't know, so it was even more precious for the young crowd.
My parents sometimes tried to listened to BBC News in secret, since it was forbidden - if caught, ppl could end up in an interrogation room! Happened to our next door neighbour who mysteriously disappeared for a few months!, came back a shadow of himself... nobody even dared talk to him afterwards, too afraid to be associated with. Just sad!!
All this to say that even to know *who* the Beatles were, was a great feat! You can imagine to convince my parents to buy that degenerate music coming out of England was really NOT easy!!
My Dad had an Akai tape monster for 8" & 10" tapes. A huge machine 2feet x 3feet high x 1feet deep.
Does anybody remember those??
My Mom was a photographer, imported all their material from Germany(Hi Babs), so they must've included it in one of the orders for the studio.
We played music on that thing, bought a turntable only later. What I can not remember is *where* Dad got those big tapes from. They couldn't be store bought w music already on them, so ... ??? He bought them blank and transfered music to them how??
Toooo long ago, memory failing fast!! *sigh*

I don't know how my Mom did it, but she found a way and I finally got that Beatles album PLUS the My Fair Lady soundtrack album at the same time - I think Mom wanted to balance out the effects of that crazy music w something more sober - needless to say, I hardly listened to the soundtrack one!, unless *I had to*... =°z°=
Strangely enough, Obladi was part of the dbl White Album, but I don't think mine was a dbl album, must have been a cheaper edition they sent to us *the savages* in Africa...

I still had all those precious albums I manage to get my hands on, when we moved to Europe ~'71. I still had them when, a few years later, I moved to Canada. Because of the weight, I had to choose which ones to bring w me, so I only brought ~20 and a few 45s. Gee, I still remember vividly their awful weight and the hassle I had on the plane, bc I didn't want them warped/scratched.
And then, 2y later disaster struck again and I lost EVERYTHING in a fire - photos, discs, letters, souvenirs and most of the beautifully embroidered sheets, table, towel sets, etc, my Mom had made for me for over 10 years...

Luckily when I met Hubby, he had an already large LP collection!! :>)
We kept adding to it, even after CDs came to be, we couldn't afford them at those $40., $30. prices.
I'll ask him later tonite if he remembers the first ones he bought, I'll post it then!!
Well, not so sure trips down memory lane are good for me. Misty eyes 'round here!!

Posted 16 years ago #
graylox
Moderator

Oh,StephenWabbitt what did you do ?

I'm thrilled, what kind of stories !
Thank you Manu!
graylox

Posted 16 years ago #
LeKanaw
Member

Hi Bobby:
Beautiful music!!!
That's the music we used to listen to on that Akai monster!!
Very nice what u did for ur Dad - and what a dashing young fellow!!
Thank you for sharing

Posted 16 years ago #
LeKanaw
Member

About ObladiOblada & censure
Just wanted to make a reference to something I read a few y. back, about this song.
Been looking around for a reference, to make sure I was quoting it properly - just found one in Wikipedia:
Quote: This song was part of the list of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel, after 9.11, presumably bc of the "Life goes on" part.
In another source it says it was banned bc the title's resemblance w u know who's name...

The strange life of a little pop song by McCartney that Lennon didn't even like...
Well, more accurate to say he detested it!

Posted 16 years ago #
maizeydaze
Member

What fantastic and interesting lives some of you have had. Both happy and sad. I'm so glad you are sharing these memories.
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Bobby - I really enjoyed the site you made for your dad. What a wonderful way to grow up.
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LeKanaw - So sorry you lost all of your precious things. How very sad. I've lost some sentimental things too, but not all of them.

By the way, did your "Akai monster" look like one of these?
http://ferrograph-reel2reel.mysite.orange.co.uk/pages/thecompetition.htm

Posted 16 years ago #
Robert
StrayCat

My first single:My Generation (The Who)

Terrible noise but that's why I bought it I suppose... ;-)
Still available on youtube ,if you would like to watch it...

My first LP's :The Beatles (saving 'till I could buy the next one)

My first tape: Queen

My first CD : Inxs (Kick )

Posted 16 years ago #
goodgotd
Member

You forgot to name the 78-RPM's as albums, the 33-1/3 RPM ones are more properly named LP Albums.

8-tracks were clunky plastic box cartridges (looked a bit like Atari 2600 game cartridges)

AKA "Stereo 8."

Only bigger. roughly 6" x 5" x 3/4", and were the successor to 4-tracks, AKA "Stereo-Pak" which had a hole in the bottom for a pinch roller to swivel up and grip the tape.

8-tracks had an internal pinch roller.

Both were endless loop 1/4" wide tapes (the tape was pulled from the middle of the spool, ran flat across the top of the spool, twisted vertical, ran past the heads and wound back on the outside of the spool.)

4-track the heads had 2 positions, so the head could read 2 of the 4 recorded tracks for stereo, the 8-track had 4 positions, ditto.

both IIRC had a 1" metal-foil strip where the tape was spliced, to trip a solenoid to shift the heads to the next set of tracks automatically.

Both moved in one direction only- no rewind.

for me, first record I can recall was a group whose name I don't recall, had a song with a refrain of "you're always welcome at our house, at our house you will stay".

I'm still looking for that song, too. lost my collection in a fire.

First 8-track was a columbia house title with 'bird of paradise', johnny cash's 'I walk the line', and a vietnam-era song called "big fanny", also on my want-back list along with "uncle ho's victory garden" (might not have been the title, got it off a dr.demento broadcast), another vietnam era ballad.

First Compact Cassette was the original version of the Deliverance soundtrack- current ones are *not* the same.

First CD was warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy".

Posted 16 years ago #
copmom
Member

Like above, too far back for me to remember, but I do remember buying 78's of various 1,001 Strings, amongst them Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Also got a lot of Hank Williams songs when those were on 45's. Then I went to the Johnny Mathis songs, like Chances are. At this point I don't care for country/western, but at that time I liked his. I've still got some reel-to-reel tapes stored in a cabinet, and I bet if I had a player for them, they'd break too. Now most of the music I have is on cassettes, and some still never unwrapped!

funkymom.. you just reminded me of something.. while at the bank one day the teller and I were talking about 'young people'.. a guy asked her what that item was he saw in one of the office windows. She said, "a typewriter".. he'd never seen one before! Shows how things have changed! I still have an old Underwood manual one out in the storage shed..doubt I could even press one of the keys down now, so I use my old electric, that's also about 25-30 years old!

By the way, Bobby, what a wonderful site you've made for your dad. You've led a very colorful, exciting life!!! So sad that his memory has gone, but you can still remember the good old days in your heart!!!

Posted 16 years ago #
LeKanaw
Member

Ohhh Maizey - Thank You so much for that!!!!
YAPP!! The Akai #M7 - Quite similar to that one!! That thing was big indeed!! =*0*=
I don't even know what happened to it.
Moving from Continent to Continent is a sure way to forget a lot & to lose a lot...

QUESTION: I don't know the name of the round "thingies" w the film inside. We called them "Bobines".
Been looking at several dicos, mostly it comes up "coil" & "spool", which I know it's not right! Reel comes up too. But "Reel" is the film *inside*, yeah??
The ensemble of the film plus the 2 plastic discs enclosing it, is called what?

Hi Ambassador:
Glad to see u up and about. It must have been quite something to knock u down for so long!! You need to rest!! Stress doesn't help either!
Is the Hubby recuping from the disaster too??

Posted 16 years ago #
goodgotd
Member

a reel. as in reel-to-reel recorder. Honest. what's coiled inside is tape (magnetic tape) or film (photographic film.)

Bobbins usually hold thread, spools are for string, rope, cable, chain....

Posted 16 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

Wow what fantastic memories some of you have shared. I throughly enjoyed reading everything. Bobby, your tribute was brilliant. I read through everthing and was rivetted.

By the way Bobby my online name is a tribute to Grace Slicks rendition of Jefferson Airplanes psychedelic song WhiteRabbit. It holds memories of my youth.

I never thought to add 78's to the pot. I only ever bought one 78, in the early 70's from a second hand store - Peggy Sue. I loved that song. I've still got the single somewhere, but it's not been played for 30 years, lol

My earliest memories of listening to music on my own was at my grand parents. They had a decent collection of 78's, but the only one I remember was leaning on a lamp post by George Formby; oh yeah and there was one that sounded like it was from the 1930's, but can't remember what it was called.

I'm looking for a record deck so that I can transfer the best of my collection, but in the mean time have found some Music E sites have much of what I love so have been re-purchasing what I can find of my favorites. It's actually cheaper to buy them now, digitally remastered and without all the clicks and crackle, than when I originally bought some of them. (when you take into account the changes in what momey was worth then and now)

My family were never musically orinetated, but we decided to change the pattern and enrol our children in music lessons. Well Em hasn't actuallystarted yet but she's soon to take up the flute. Callum is learning to play the saxaphone. He still looks swamped by the Alto sax we bought him, but he's getting there and can play some simple tunes already. I'm always amazed at a childs capacity to pick things up.

With respect to reel to reel tapes. I used to own an akai years ago, but exchanged my last one in the late 70's for a sony reel to reel. It was stored in the loft until about three years ago when we had a big clear out. One of the pre amps had blown on it (after my brother had borrowed it to tape some of their gig's, so it went in the skip together with virtually all of my tapes. I kept a couple that had recordings of me, family and friends talking and messing about. Oh yeah and of my brothers band. I forgot about that. My brother was about the only one with musical talent. He managed to attain a small amount of fame with a band called The NotSensibles in the late 70's with a few singles in the UK charts getting into the top 30, and I think one got as high as number 14, though couldn't be sure as at the time I was living in Krefeld Germany and wasn't keeping up with the British Charts. It was called I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher or possibly I am the Bishop He played along side such bands as The Cult, Simply Red and The Clash before they were famous. They have recently reformed and did their first a few years ago gig at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool UK as part of a 30 year tribute to Punk and plan to go touring this summer with dates set in Germany and Spain so far.

Posted 16 years ago #
qb7894
Member

My Musical memories come from our bed time........Dad would put on 33, LP's 4 or 5......The first was notice that we were to get ready for bed...Usually something country western...All the house was wired with small speakers.....Then a full record of Classics....Loud with all kinds of drums....That meant he was checking on us....then....Boston pops....tv theme songs and familiar songs....Something familiar and comforting....And then one or two lps of chamber music...quiet....Peaceful.....Relaxing....I miss my dad! I still cannot sleep without my radio, or tv on.....

Posted 16 years ago #
LeKanaw
Member

A "Reel" then.
Thank u GdGOTD :*)

Posted 16 years ago #